Press Release: 13-05-2020

Kerala Covid-19 Tracker
Ten new cases and one recovery today, total 41 patients under treatment

Thiruvananthapuram, May 13: Ten new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Kerala today. The infection was detected in three persons from Malappuram district, two each in Wayanad and Palakkad districts, and one each from Kottayam, Kannur and Kozhikode districts. Four of them have recently come back from abroad, two have returned from Chennai and four have got infected through local contact. This includes two police personnel also. One truck driver who came from Chennai to Wayanad has so far infected ten persons.

Meanwhile, one patient in Kollam district under treatment for Coronavirus has tested negative today. So fare 490 patients have recovered from this infection and currently 41 patients are under treatment in different hospitals in the State.

34,447 persons are presently under surveillance in different districts across the State. Of these, 33,953 are quarantined at their homes and 494 are isolated at hospitals. 168 persons were hospitalised today.
So far, 39,380 samples have been sent for testing and 38,509 samples have been confirmed with no infection. As part of sentinel surveillance, 4,268 samples were collected from people in the high-risk group – healthcare workers, migrant labourers and those with higher public exposure, and tested. Out of these, 4,065 samples have tested negative.
No new hotspot was declared today and presently, there are 34 hotspots in Kerala now.

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Shri Pinarayi Vijayan has been elected in the 14th Kerala Legislative Assembly elections held on 16th May 2016 from Dharmadom constituency with a margin of 36,905 votes.
He is a member of the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Earlier he had served as Secretary of the Kerala State Committee of the CPI (M) from 1998 to 2015.